On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant@gmail.com> wrote:
> The version file does not appear in the uncompressed tzdata2016g database.  This is hurting my ability to report the version of the database to my clients.  Can we please put a version file in the database?

Though I suppose I could scrape the version number out of the NEWS file…

Why can't you deduce the version from the name of the file?  But I agree: non-git based distributions should include the generated version file.